page_title: Barbara Bolt
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caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Barbara Bolt
context_page_description: Barbara Bolt is an Australia academic and artist. She is the current director of the Victorian College of the Arts which is part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. She is a research theorist her research investigates art theory and criticism, art as research. Her art practice investigates the material possibilities of painting in a digital age and the relationship between painting and light. She was on the executive board of the international Society for Artistic Research, which produces the Journal of Artistic Research and is a member of the editorial board of Australian Art Education.
context_section_description: Barbara Bolt is an Australia academic and artist. She is the current director of the Victorian College of the Arts which is part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. She is a research theorist her research investigates art theory and criticism (performativity, research ethics, new materialism), art as research (practice-led research). Her art practice investigates the material possibilities of painting in a digital age and the relationship between painting and light (urban landscapes, colourfield, digital, neon). She was  on the executive board of the international Society for Artistic Research (SAR), which produces the Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) and is a member of the editorial board of Australian Art Education.
caption: Bolt
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